Deeply captivated by the rich tapestry of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon cultures, Gubbio's Italian roots extend beyond geography. She is both influenced by the rich artistic and cultural legacy of her homeland and yet painstakingly open to the modern world of the bustling megalopoli, in which most of her tales and poems are born. The echoes of ancient myths and legends faintly whisper through her narratives, with fantastical elements finding new life in her surreal and yet suffocating polluted contemporary backdrops.Her short stories are imbued with an otherworldly charm, cruel and ethereal, bizarre and existentially non-sensical. Her characters, both whimsical and profound, embody the spirit of these ancient traditions along with future or alternative dimensions.Tales of motherly love, loss of identity, fragmentation of one's perception and yet the enduring power of the human spirit against all that."Stories of Flowers and Lemons", her only published collection of shorts stories and poems to date, is a literary landscape where surrealism, absurdism and magic realism intertwine, creating a captivating narrative that will linger long after the final page is turned. Like fragments of a forgotten world, these stories float on the air, their echoes resonating with the melodies of Gianna Nannini's voice, a distant radio signal from a time that has passed.Read more about this authorRead less about this author